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Principal Information Technology Compliance Analyst Job Description

 

 

 

Job Summary:

The Principal Information Technology Compliance Analyst will under general direction, provide guidance to the organization on the establishment, evaluation, and reporting upon controls and risks mitigation strategies in the IT and business environments. He/She will mentor the team and perform risk identification and mitigation strategies, control documentation, evaluation of control design, evaluation of control operation, reporting of control deficiencies, and remediation strategies.

Principal Information Technology Compliance Analyst will monitor and evaluate the current processes to evaluate and improve control documentation & testing for effectiveness and efficiency improvements. He/She will collect information on control failures/unmitigated risks, and remediation results to build compliance reports for IT and business management; provide advisory services for IT controls in multiple projects, teams, and audits by ensuring consistent control implementation through documented processes for identifying control requirements prior to their implementation into production IT environments.

Job Description:

The Principal Information Technology Compliance Analyst will perform all or some of the following Job description:

  • Mentor team members in establishment, evaluation, and reporting upon risks and controls in the IT and business environments

  • Help with the development of communications and related campaigns for Compliance-awareness

  • Collaborate & coordinate with other internal controls-focused areas such as Security, IT Attestation PMO, Other IT Attestation teams, and business compliance areas

  • Design, perform, and evaluate the current testing of multiple controls at one time

  • Maintain and improve the process for evaluation of IT controls through a combination of automated testing and interviewing

  • Evaluate the frequency and scope of IT control testing

  • Maintain and improve the current IT Attestation (SOX) design effectiveness and operating effectiveness testing program

  • Perform internal self-assessments for management (outside of attestation program)

  • Perform/mentor team on following activities:
    Risk identification and mitigation strategies
    Control documentation
    Control testing

  • Process to evaluate and improve control documentation & testing (effectiveness/efficiency)

  • Coordinate and consolidate the identification and tracking of control deficiencies/unmitigated risks in the environment:
    Involve appropriate business and IT representation in decisions on how to address control failures in design or operational effectiveness
    Ensure the process to resolve control deficiencies has mechanisms for:
    Building dynamic decision groups (business, IT and other teams)
    Collecting and reviewing control deficiencies
    Developing and selecting mitigation strategies
    Assigning resources for remediation (non-compliance team resources)
    Recording the decisions for future reference
    Tracking the progress of remediation activities
    Collect information on control failures/unmitigated risks, and remediation results to build compliance reports for IT and business management

  • Provide status reports of remediation projects/activities

  • Translate technology-oriented test results into business-focused risk language

  • Collect and report test results in the expected time frame

  • Communicate IT compliance activities within the context of business risk

  • Create, review and/or approve IT compliance reports prior to distribution

  • Securely archive reports for future use

  • Provide Advisory Services For IT Controls in multiple projects, teams, and audits through:
    Ensuring consistent control implementation by providing a mechanism for identifying control requirements prior to their implementation into production IT environments

  • Support management in understanding Internal Audit's scope, requirements, process, and timeline

  • Support management in understanding external audits (E&Y, DOI, customers, 3rd party) scope, requirements, process, and timeline

  • Support management in implementation of policy/procedures within the environment

  • Provide guidance and support for risk modeling

  • Establish risk modeling scope

  • Establish risk scoring system

  • Establish risk scoring process and timing

  • Execute risk scoring

  • Collect risk scores and results and build compliance reports for IT and business management.

Minimum Requirements / Knowledge / Skill For Principal Information Technology Compliance Analyst Job

  • Strong interpersonal communication skills, analytical ability, detail orientation, a quality focus, professional curiosity and problem solving skills as well as a broad knowledge of business function(s), information technologies and the Audit/compliance practice body of knowledge.

Minimum Education Requirements / Certification / Licensure For Principal Information Technology Compliance Analyst Job

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Accounting, or a related discipline and at least eight years of solid work experience in internal audit, External Audit, or SOX program or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.  


 

 

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